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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Tempting the Tastebuds: Forbidden Rice

I haven't done a Tempting the Tastebuds post in awhile but we have made horseradish with a fresh root and eaten several veggies we all love now. I wanted to start tempting with veggies to widen our gardening. I think adding other things like this rice is a good idea so here we go.

As I said Monday we bought some Forbidden Rice or black rice at Whole Foods Saturday, and I have been thinking of what do make with it not just cooked rice.

Above is about 1 1/2 cups of rice, so less than a pint of rice.

Below is all the rice cooked and it filled 3 pint jars. I don't think we needed that much cooked. Next time I think I will cook a 1/3 of it instead. I froze what I didn't use.

Sorry for the fuzziness the steam clouded the lens on my camera. And below is a blurry picture of the salad I made with it. I hunted around and found some recipes but I wanted something different. This salad is a doctored up version of this recipe.

This recipe is a good dish for a picnic and a cold summer dinner or lunch. I served it with homemade bread which isn't a must.

Ingredients

Cooked Forbidden rice 1 pint

Dry White beans cooked 2 cups

Corn 1 can or more if wanted

Any amount or combination of raw veggies, I used green pepper, purple onion, brocculi, carrots..

Then add this dressing:

1/2 cup unseasoned rice vinegar

1/4 cup plus 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

2 tbsp tamari soy sauce

1 1/2 tablespoons pure maple syrup

1 1/2 tsp toasted sesame oil

1/4 teaspoon ginger

It can be doubled, and I used stevia liquid instead of maple syrup since I didn't have it.

Mix this all together and chill. I also added cut up turkey from a homegrown turkey I cooked the other day. Ashley and I really liked this I see it being a salad we make this summer alot. I don't like alot of pasta so this is a great alternative.

I hope you have the opportunity to try this wonderful rice it is very tasty. I read it tastes like brown rice but I did not think so and it cooked faster than brown rice. The water was purple when it was cooking which was funny and the rice had a purple tinge when cooked.

It has a whole grain flavor but not brown rice. Brown rice is a unique flavor but this rice is light and mild. Over the weekend I added it to taco meat and a refried bean mixture and it was very good. I think it is like black beans mild but takes on the flavor of the dish you put it in.

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The Old-Fashioned Homemaker. . .
~Does her best, and leaves God the rest.
~Does not indulge in self-pity, but loses her life in the service of her fellow man.
~Dresses to please her Lord and family.
~Guards her health as her greatest wealth.
~Knows that an apron is a girl's best friend.
~Knows that home-making is an art and a science, and is always learning something new.
~Lets her joy bubble out in song, all day long.
~Lives in His light, not her own.
~Loves Nature, and teaches her children to respect its Creator.
~Never gives up.
~Strives to be self-sufficient.

"Why do women want to dress like men when they're fortunate enough to be women? Why lose our femininity, which is one of our greatest charms? We get much more accomplished by being charming than we would by flaunting around in pants and smoking. I'm very fond of men. I think they're wonderful creatures. I love them dearly. But I don't want to look like one"~~~~Tasha Tudor

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Be true to your work, your world, and your friendsThoreau

Thomas Jefferson’s 10 Rules to Live by:
1. Never put off tomorrow what you can do today.
2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money before you have earned it.
4. Never buy what you don’t want because it is cheap.
5. Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.
6. We seldom repent of having eaten too little.
7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
8. How much pain the evils have cost us that never happened.
9. Take things always by the smooth handle.
10. When angry, count ten before you speak, if very angry, count to a hundred.

Ben Franklin’s 13 Virtues
1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
3. ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
4. RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
5. FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.
6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
7. SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
8. JUSTICE. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
9. MODERATION. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
10. CLEANLINESS. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.
11.TRANQUILLITY. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
12. CHASTITY. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.
13. HUMILITY. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.

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